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Title

Tithinirṇaya
तिथिनिर्णय

Authors

• Bhaṭṭojī Dīkṣita

Other related names

• Narahari Bhaṭṭa Śevaḍe, scribe

Call number

Ms. Coll. 390 Item 2417
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958038293503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802279730
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5803829

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

In Sanskrit

Summary

Treatise on Hindu astronomy (jyotiṣa) and mathematics, examining and considering the nature of a day (tithi) and how it should be calculated within broader cosmological systems.

Notes

• Title from colophon (f. 41v).
   
• Written in 9-11 lines per leaf.
   
• 42 leaves foliated 1-41, [42], upper left and lower right verso.
   
• Dated saṃvat 1798 caitrasudi 7 (Friday, March 24, 1741) (f. 1r).
   
• Mistakes covered over in yellow or blacked out; some corrections and additions in margins; significant syllables, words, or phrases highlighted in red throughout; vertical margins marked with single black line.
   
• Scribe is Narahari Bhaṭṭa Śevaḍe (f. 1r and 41v), son of Raghunātha and Sarasvatī Śevaḍe.
   
• Non-Latin script record.
   

Extent

1 item (42 leaves) : 12 x 26 cm

Support

Paper

Colophon

Colophon: iti śrīpadavākyapramāṇajñaśrīlakṣmīdharasūreḥ sūnunā bhaṭṭojīdīkṣitena viracitas tithinirṇayaḥ samāptaḥ // narahariṇālikhitaṃ (f. 41v).

Subjects topical

• Hindu astronomy
• Mathematics--India

Genres

• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Sanskrit--18th century
• Manuscripts--India--18th century

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